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Michał Pieniak

@mpieniak.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology, Uni of Wrocław | Studying human sense of smell

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Our new paper has just been published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Additionally, we retested a few participants 1.5 years after the training completion. We found that 9 out of 10 participants became specifically anosmic again, what shows that in the case of specific anosmia, the smell training effects are only transient.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

We found that after two months of a systematic smell training, most of the participants gained sensitivity to odors they were unable to detect at baseline.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Our new paper on olfactory plasticity has just been published in Cortex 🧵 Some people with a healthy sense of smell are unable to perceive a few selected odors, a phenomenon known as specific anosmia. We checked if people can gain some perception of these smells via training.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I genuinely enjoyed The Forgotten Sense by Jonas Olofsson. It covers multiple areas of smell research in an engaging way, making it a great read for both experts and those just discovering the field. Congratulations @jokriolo.bsky.social!

Picture of a book „The forgotten sense. The new science of smell and the extraordinary power of the nose” by Jonas Olofsson.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Excited to share that starting December, I’ll be switching my role at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, to an assistant professor. Looking forward to this new chapter!

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